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From: djl@ptsfb.UUCP (Dave Lampe)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Boring races
Message-ID: <234@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 13:40:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ptsfb.234
Posted: Tue Oct  1 13:40:27 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Oct-85 07:12:33 EDT
References: <3792@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU>
Reply-To: djl@ptsfb.UUCP (Dave Lampe-4e700q)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
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In article <3792@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> bnw@crash.UUCP writes:
>     I'll have to appeal to the net for the title and author of this one.
>I read a book some years ago about invaders who conquer Earth and then
>discover, to their considerable dismay, that they have conquered a race
>that is more intelligent.
>     One specific instance in the book:
> 
>     Some human prisoners are being taken to a POW camp by alien guards
>holding an alien rifle in one hand and a knife in the other.  A prisoner
>is explaining how to make a bayonet as they walk.
> 
>     One of the major aliens is (as best I recall) General Horsip.
> 
>     The book is very funny, well done, and ends in a rather unexpected
>manner.
>                                                         /Bruce N. Wheelock/
>                           uucp: {ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, noscvax}!crash!bnw

The name of the book in question is Pandora's Planet by (I believe)
Christopher Anvil. This book and the other two that I know of by him,
Warlord's World and (something) Paradise are well worth reading if
you like stories of ordinary people put in extraodinary situations
and how they rise to meet them.

Dave Lampe @ Pacific Bell
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(415) 823-2408


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